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has ceased to know anything of the

business

But these verbal defects could

be altered

as some, quite unintended, provisions of the Bill as it passed. the first reading were altered, at the instigation of the Press, before the

Ordinan Che

was settled-

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would

urgen

A

more

important

that the whole tenour and spirit of the Ordinance is

am

English and insulting

to the business community

For some time past the Government of Hongkong appear to have had no administration scept putting the matter concerned at the unfettered

notion

of

discretion

of

come

I have no

official formal authority to

speak for any one but myself but f know that many agree with me

artm

I fully believe that substantially the whole mercantile commsenity would

Endorse what I

Say.

We feel that we are

treated hardly

being

that we do not deserte

to be treated in this way. We have

at the risk of

sven, of turned a

Oncent

our health, of

lives

own Explate

A

magnificent

fortunes, at our granite, rock into city: we, to the great advantage of England

have made a barren island a mart of trade which is the wonder, them